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Anyone else installed this yet?

Windows Update popped up today saying it wanted to install it but I'm a bit wary.

I'm might install it if I can ever sort my updates out. Every day when I shut down it comes up with an update to install. (it's the same one, but wont go away. Been like it for two weeks now) arrgh!

It's been causing chaos where I work, wouldn't touch it with yours tbh

Thought that might be the case. I'll steer clear for now.

Couldnt get a consistent message when I search around the tinterweb thingy on this. Supposedly mighty dodgy to begin with but 'some' of the problems fixed. Bit that got me was that once you install it you can't roll back. Sod that !

NMH

Apart from 4 new features the rest are all hotfixes you could download separaetly through windows update. I haven't bothered so far.

i've installed it on my work PC and not had any problems.

i do like the fact remote desktop now remember your credentials for each site

I have installed it in 12 computers so far and no problem at all, unlike SP2 which was a freakin nightmare.

I am running it here now and have noticed virtually no differences in the running of XP.

Apparently there are issues if you use Norton products and some AMD chipset (especially on HP machines) drivers can cause problems.

I have installed it on 4 PC's with AMD chipsets and seen no problems as yet and I will be the first to know I am sure!

Ville Valo - the update will stop that annoying update problem that SP2 has, but if you do not wish to install SP3 then find out which update its failing on and disable that individual update mate and voila ville valo its gone!

I installed it and had fookin nightmares. Uninstalled it straight away.

Seems the problems folks at our work have experienced have largely been due to install issues - ie where it's installed it's been largely OK, but if you get problems during install (and a lot of people have) you end up in this indeterminate limbo state where you can't uninstall it or reinstall it, ie you can't go forward and you can't go back. The machine then ends up randomly crashing/rebooting or some instances just won't boot. But then MS have always been renowned for the quality of their SP installers

it can't be as bad as the vista sp1 installer, surely?

That makes sense Paul, if you interupt (intentionally or not) anything from Microsoft it can maojorly fuck up Windows as a whole, not wonderful programming from Microsoft yet again, hogging system resources just before it crashes causing system malfunctions afterwards by never rereleasing the system drivers and DLL's that it had access to at the time of the crash.

I'm running it at home and on my work pc and it has been running sweet, we have rolled it out at work to about 30 test users a few days ago as well and there are no problems reported so will be rolling it out throughout the company sometime in the next few weeks.

I think that SP3 has been out long enough now for MS to iron out any problems...although this is MS we are talking about I suppose !!

I've been installing it, but on my home PC I slipstreamed it into a Windows XP disk and did a fresh install.

At work had no problems except GPO's edited through a mega old version of Novell ConsoleOne stopped working.

i installed it have had no issues. i've also seen nothing change either, so i've probably done it wrong

I've done it on the very laptop I'm typing on, no issues so far.

As well as in a caravan?

 :D

Just installed it 20 minutes ago. Apart from wiping out my custom theme it's holding up okay.

*touches wood*

i downloaded it and had no issues